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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Thank you Parr Lumber!

Parr Lumber has donated 2000 linear feet of material for McKinley to use in the School Garden.
Thank you Darryl for all your support and work for the garden project!

Now comes the fun part! Phase one of our school garden will include some raised beds outside of room 4. We are in the process of crossing our t's and dotting our i's and submitting all the paperwork necessary to move forward this Spring.

Stay tuned for updates and how to get involved!

ALSO--check out the new link to Oregon Department of Education's Farm to School site. Lots of information to get you thinking about school gardens and good food in the cafeteria.

ALSO--Several of us attended a meeting in at CREST, an environmental-science education program, in Wilsonville Jan. 12th. The talk was focused around resources to support school gardens, and how you connect the garden to classroom curriculum. There is a very large educational garden on-site, and they are doing some really interesting things with the grounds. Pictures to come!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

MEETINGS THIS WEEK!

There is a Farm to School meeting on Jan. 12th in Wilsonville.  Representatives from several school districts that are pursuing farm to school programs and people from ODE will be there to share ideas, resources, etc. I''ll post an update of that later this week. It should be exciting to hear what others are doing as we slowly get started here at McKinley.

Next Garden Meeting!
Tuesday, January 18th 9:00am 
McKinley Media Center

We have decided to try and meet twice a month to help us stay on track with the goal of putting in some raised beds by this Spring. Our next meeting is the 18th. Hopefully we will have some sketches to look at and we can start searching out materials and donations we will need. Come join the discussion if you can.
I will work on getting dates up here in a more timely manner, as well as updates on what we've done or plan to do. Email or post a comment with suggestions or questions.